Mine detail: French Corral District

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Location

Lat / long: 39.30388, -121.15224

Resource(B)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Platinum, Silver
Tertiary: Diamond
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz, Garnet, Magnetite, Ilmenite, Zircon, Pyrite, Amphibole, Epidote, Chlorite, Siderite
Orebody form: Irregular
Discovery year: 1850

Production

Operation type: Surface
Deposit type: Stream Placer
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Sand and Gravel
Structure:Big Bend-Wolf Creek Fault Zone
Tectonic:Magmatic arc

References

DEP10310616
Reference{Deposit:: Clark, W.B., 1970, Gold districts of California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 193, p. 50.}{Deposit:: Lindgren, W., 1895, Smartsville Folio, California: U.S. Geological Survey Atlas of the U.S., Folio 18, 6 p.}{Deposit:: Lindgren, W., 1911, Tertiary gravels of the Sierra Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 73, p. 123-125.}{Deposit:: MacBoyle, E., 1919, Nevada County, French Corral mining district: California State Mining Bureau Report 16, p. 7-11.}{Deposit:: Saucedo, G. J. and Wagner, D. L., 1992, Geologic map of the Chico Quadrangle: California Division of Mines and Geology Regional Map Series Map No. 7A, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Yeend, W.E., 1974, Gold-bearing gravel of the ancestral Yuba River, Sierra Nevada, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 772, 44 p.}{Deposit:: Additional information on the French Corral District is contained in File Nos. 331-9402 and 330-6679 (CGS Mineral Resources Files, Sacramanto).}
ReporterDowney, Cameron (Higgins, Chris, T.), Schruben, Paul G.